libpython2.4.so

[Shane Hathaway]

Levi Campbell wrote:
> what is /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so used for?
> 

On many systems, it is the core of Python, and /usr/bin/python2.4 is a 
small wrapper around it.  Here's what I see on my box:

[shane at panther usr]$ ls -l bin/python2.4 lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    4072 Oct  3 12:35 bin/python2.4
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1009832 Oct  3 12:35 lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0

Shane